Shri. Polamraju Lakshmi Haranadh
IRTS, Promoter Non-Executive Director of DCIChairperson of Paradip Port Authority
Mr. P.L.Haranadh is Indian Railway Traffic Service Officer of 1994 batch. He hails from Andhra Pradesh. He studied MSc & Ph.D from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi.
During his 27 years of service, he worked in Indian Railways for 22 years and 5 years in Ministry of Shipping. In Railways he worked as Sr. Divisional Operations Manager, Raipur Division and Chakradharpur Division, Dy. Chief Operations Manager of South Eastern Railway & South Central Railway and Chief Operations Manager (Marketing), East Coast Railway. Presently working as Chief Freight Transportation Manager of East Coast Railway. He has rich experience in rail transportation, especially in freight operations, business development and traffic planning. In recognition of his meritorious work, he received National Award for outstanding management in 2002 and in 2005 from Ministry of Railways. He also worked as Deputy Chairman of Visakhapatnam Port from 2015- 2020. He was instrumental in developing innovative marketing solutions like total logistics solutions to customers to attract cargoes like coal, containers etc. During his tenure, he contributed to overall growth of Visakhaptnam Port and the port scaled up to 3rd position among major ports. Presently he is working as Chairman, Paradip Port Trust.